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The general anti-avoidance rule for income tax contained in Part IVA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 will be expanded so that it can apply to:
The expanded rule will apply to income years commencing on or after 1 July 2024, regardless of whether the scheme was entered into before that date.
The Government will provide:
The Government has announced it will increase the Location Offset rebate rate to 30 per cent from 2024-25, whilst increasing the minimum Qualifying Australian Production Expenditure thresholds to $20.0 million for feature films and $1.5 million per hour for television series, in order to attract investment from large-budget screen productions and provide domestic employment and training opportunities.
The Government will also provide funding from 2024-25 for the Australia-India Audio-Visual Co-Production Agreement to enable eligible producers to access the Producer Offset, a refundable tax offset for approved Australian expenditure.
The Government has announced a number of measures relating to tobacco and vaping products, proposing stronger regulation and enforcement of all e-cigarettes, including new controls on their importation.
The Government will also increase the tax on tobacco by five per cent per year for three years in addition to normal indexation increases from 1 September 2023. In addition, the Government will progressively align the tax treatment of loose-leaf tobacco products (such as roll-your-own tobacco) with the manufactured stick excise rate between 1 September 2023 and 1 September 2026 to ensure these products are taxed equally.
The Government is deferring the start date for some components of the 2022–23 March Budget measures in relation to the streamlining of excise administration for fuel and alcohol from 1 July 2023 to 1 July 2024. This applies to measures that:
Fuel tax related measures in the 2023-24 Budget include:
The Government will provide an additional $1.0 billion over four years from 2023–24 (and $268.1 million per year ongoing) to increase capability in Australia’s biosecurity system and maintain existing services. This will result in increases to cost recovery charges for imported goods, which will increase overall costs associated with importing goods for Australian importers. Specifically, charges for imports of low value cargo will be increased, affecting overall costs for Australian importers of low value cargo.
Key measures to be funded include $145.2 million over three years from 2023–24 to deliver new digital systems to facilitate and streamline the import of goods through integration with business systems.
The Government will provide an additional $23.8 million in 2023–24 to continue initiatives to modernise and improve Australia’s international trade system, including delivering the simplified trade system reforms and continuation of the Trade Information Service.
Jonathan Woodger
Partner, Tax Controversy and Dispute Resolution, PwC Australia
Tel: +61 423 029 454